Employment
since 2024 Assistant Professor (odborný asistent) at the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Ostrava
2022 - 2024 Researcher at the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Ostrava
2016 - 2022 Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University
2012 - 2016 Assistant Professor at the School of Foreign Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Education
2012 - PhD in Applied Linguistics, Communication University of China, Beijing
2009 - Master Degree in Applied Linguistics, Communication University of China, Beijing
2006 - Bachelor Degree in Applied Linguistics, Communication University of China , Beijing
Stays abroad
March 2024 - May 2024 research stay at College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
September 2018 - August 2020 research stay at Czech Language Department, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
September 2018 - Octorber 2018 research stay at Département des Sciences du langage, Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France
September 2018 research stay at Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
September 2017 - December 2017 research stay at Faculty of Art, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
May 2015 - July 2015 research stay at Le Antiche Torri, Sarnano, Italy
March 2014 - March 2015 research stay at Text Technology, Institut für Informatik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
September 2013 research stay at Department of Communication and Information Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Research Grants
2022-2024
Quantitative Syntactic Stylistics of Contemporary Written Czech, Czech Science Foundation GAČR GA22-20632S; team member.
2018-2021
Cross-language Dependencies Distributions, National Social Science Fund (18CYY031); team leader.
2016-2019
Syntactic Network of Modern Chinese, Xi’an Jiaotong University Social Science Fund (SK2017021); team leader.
2015-2020
Quantitative Study of Shaanxi Local Literature, Shaanxi State Social Science Fund (2015K001); team leader.
2013-2019
Quantitative Study of the Stylistic Features of News, National Social Science Fund (13CYY022); team member.
2013-2018
Quantitative and Cognitive Research of Chinese Dependency Distance, Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Fund (13YJC740112); team member.
2012-2018
English-Chinese Contrast Study based on Dependency Treebanks, National Social Science Fund (12XYY005); team member.
2011-2017
Quantitative Study of Modern Chinese, Major Project of National Social Science Fund (11&ZD188); team member.
2009-2013
Study of Complex Chinese Language Networks, National Social Science Fund (09BYY024); team member.
2008-2011
Construction and Application Study of Media Language Corpus based on Dependency Grammar, National 211 Project Fund (BW0357); team member.
Teaching
Quantitative Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Chinese Language and Culture
English Listening and Speaking Skills
English for ICT (Information and Communication Technology)
Business / Professional English
Reviewing
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
Glottometrics
Applied Linguistics
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
Physic A
Physics of Life Reviews
Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
Linguistics Vanguard
Membership
IQLA - International Quantitative Linguistics Association, member at large
Organizing conferences
Syntaxfest 2025, Ljubljana, August, Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (August)
Syntaxfest 2021, Sofia, March 21-24 March, Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (March 23)
SyntaxFest 2019, Paris, August 26-30, Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (August 26)
Selected publications
Chen, H., Chen, X., & Liu, H. (2018). How does language change as a lexical network? An investigation based on written Chinese word co-occurrence networks. PloS one, 13(2), e0192545.
Chen, X., & Gerdes, K. (2017, September). Classifying languages by dependency structure. Typologies of delexicalized universal dependency treebanks. In Proceedings of the fourth international conference on dependency linguistics (Depling 2017) (pp. 54-63).
Chen, X., & Gerdes, K. (2018). How do universal dependencies distinguish language groups. Quantitative analysis of dependency structures, 72, 277-294.
Chen, X., & Gerdes, K. (2022). Dependency distances and their frequencies in indo-european language. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 29(1), 106-125.
Chen, X., & Kubát, M. (2022). Rural versus urban fiction in contemporary Chinese literature-Quantitative approach case study. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37(3), 681-692.